Extended and Flexible Early Years Entitlement for 3 and 4 year olds.
Consulting with Parents –
Before considering how you are going to provide extended 15 hours entitlement and deliver that more flexibly to meet the needs of parents, it is essential that providers consult with local parents.

We have produced a sample survey/questionnaire for providers to use or adapt to meet their needs, which we hope will help with this consultation and a new Parent Leaflet (234KB - pdf help) relating to the changes to Early Years Entitlement. Parent Leaflet translated into Polish here (113KB - pdf help).

Incentive Grants
Providers who have been invited and agreed to take part in the initial roll out of extended/flexible Early Years Entitlement will have qualified for a fixed grant of £500 intended to cover additional expenditure towards marketing materials and activity, advertising, promotion and provision of information to parents. They may also apply for an additional grant, up to a maximum of £2000, for other costs associated with extending the hours that a funded child is entitled to receive and/or for those hours to be provided more flexibly to meet the needs of parents.

• Grant Application Form
• Grant Application Guidance (31KB - pdf help)

Summer 2009 Workshops regarding the roll out of the Flexible Funding

The presentation that was given at the Summer workshops is available here (291KB - pdf help)

Intermin Guidance
Important Interim Guidance relating to Early Years Entitlement.

• Letter to providers (31KB - pdf help)
• Letter to parents (19KB - pdf help)

Here you will find useful documents relating to the EYEF

• Early Years Term Dates Calendar 2009/10 (17KB - pdf help)
• Early Years Term Dates Calendar 2010/11 (25KB - pdf help)
• Parent's Information Leaflet (234KB - pdf help)
• Draft Guidelines, Conditions and Requirements for EYEF in Devon (101KB - pdf help)

For more information please contact the EYE helpline on 01392 385530 or e-mail eyef@devon.gov.uk

Reforming the funding of the free entitlement to early education – A report by Devon County Council’s Early Years and Childcare Service

Many of Devon’s Early Years Education Funded childcare providers have, over the last few months, taken part in a survey of the costs involved in delivering their service. This piece of work is a key part of moving, by September 2010 at the latest, towards a single formula for funding Early Years.

Analysing the cost of delivering the free entitlement to nursery education in the PVI Sector (78KB - pdf help)

Analysing the cost of delivering the free entitlement to nursery education in the PVI Sector - Appendicies (63KB - pdf help)

Minutes of the Early Years Funding Review Group Meeting (25KB - pdf help) held on 5 February 2009

Minutes of the Early Years Funding Review Group Meeting (36KB - pdf help) held on 3 November 2009